Printing with a newer printer in OS 9

I am trying to print from an older OS 9 program (Microsoft Works 3.0), which I still use for certain functions.

The computer is a Powermac G4, also running OS X 10.4.

I have the printer (a Canon MX860) connected directly to it via USB and also connected as a network printer via a direct ethernet connection to my router.

I can get the printer to print from OS X programs just fine, using the drivers supplied by Canon.

I can sort of get it it to print from OS 9.

But when I try to print from OS 9, the print comes out very light, and in pastel colors, rather than black.

I can't find a way to change the color settings in OS 9 (I am running OS 9 in Classic, not actually booting up in it).

I can get my program to choose my printer by using "page setup" ion the program I am using, but I cannot get the printer name to appear in the "chooser", so I can't select it there. I also can't find a way to add my printer to the the chooser.

It seems OS 9 has limited functionality when it comes to adding printers while in classic.

I have also tried downloading OS 9 software from Canon: they don't offer any.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Is there a generic OS 9 printer driver I could install that would give me more control over printer settings?

a while back I remember using an old version of Adobe Acrobat (like version 2.1 or something) that came with PDFWriter, a virtual printer that you could choose from the Chooser to allow you to print to a PDF file from any application in OS 9. You could print to PDF files and then, print these later when booted into OS X, or use file sharing to copy the file to another computer that could print the PDF files. The version I had shipped on diskettes.

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